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Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2012

), material or other explicit incentives (laws) and social sanctions or rewards (norms). It first examines how honor, stigma and …

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Stigma and Take-up of Labor Market Assistance: Evidence from Two Field Experiments

Osman, Adam; Speer, Jamin D. - 2023

Aversion to "stigma" - disutility associated with a program or activity due to beliefs about how it is perceived - may … randomized field experiments, we show that stigma can affect consequential labor market decisions. Treatments designed to … alleviate stigma concerns about taking entry-level jobs - such as how those jobs are perceived by society - had small average …

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Stigma and Misconceptions in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Field Experiment in India

Islam, Asadul; Pakrashi, Debayan; Vlassopoulos, Michael; … - 2020

A hidden cost of the COVID-19 pandemic is the stigma associated with the disease for those infected and groups that are … COVID-19 from a reliable source can reduce stigmatization. We carry out a randomized field experiment in the state of Uttar … address stigma and misconceptions. We find that the information brief decreases stigmatization of COVID-19 patients and …

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A model of overconfidence

Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2009

People use information about their ability to choose tasks. If more challenging tasks provide more accurate information about ability, people who care about and who are risk averse over their perception of their own ability will choose tasks that are not sufficiently challenging. Overestimation...

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Extrinsic rewards and intrinsic motives: Standard and behavioral approaches to agency and labor markets

Rebitzer, James B.; Taylor, Lowell J. - 2010

Employers structure pay and employment relationships to mitigate agency problems. A large literature in economics documents how the resolution of these problems shapes personnel policies and labor markets. For the most part, the study of agency in employment relationships relies on highly...

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Are income and consumption taxes ever really equivalent? evidence from a real-effort experiment with real goods

Blumkin, Tomer; Ruffle, Bradley J.; Ganun, Yosef - 2010

The public finance literature demonstrates the equivalence between consumption and laborincome (wage) taxes. We introduce an experimental paradigm in which individuals make real labor-leisure choices and spend their earned income on real goods. We use this paradigm to test whether a labor-income...

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Integrating personality psychology into economics

Heckman, James J. - 2011

This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists have much to learn from and contribute to personality psychology.

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Certainty and severity of sanctions in classical and behavioral models of deterrence: A survey

Entorf, Horst - 2012

This survey summarizes the classical fundamentals of modern deterrence theory, covers major theoretical and empirical findings on the impact of certainty and severity of punishment (and the interplay thereof) as well as underlying methodological problems, gives an overview of limitations and...

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Emotions and Incentives

Kräkel, Matthias - 2004

We introduce a concept of emotions that emerge when workers compare their own performance with a given standard or with the performances of co-workers. Assuming heterogeneity among the workers the interplay of emotions and incentives is analyzed by focusing on three incentive schemes that are...

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Emotions, sanctions and cooperation

Joffily, Mateus; Masclet, David; Noussair, Charles N.; … - 2011

We use skin conductance responses and self-reports of hedonic valence to study the emotional basis of cooperation and punishment in a social dilemma. Emotional reaction to free-riding incites individuals to apply sanctions when they are available. The application of sanctions activates a...

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